And really it is an interesting read. Really. Ok, maybe not a beach read, but…let’s take a look at this breathtaking, griping document. If you are into programming with Java, feel free to check Java’s ISO or ECMA standard out. Oh you can’t. There isn’t one a standard for Java, it’s owned by Oracle.

Hello World

If you want to get started with any language these days you start with “Hello World”. In Part 1. Introduction, the basic Hello World is given in the example in paragraph 1.1 Hello World, which means there is a standard for “Hello World”.

Open Notepad and Copy and paste the “Hello World” example code from the Language Specification, it will look like the following without all of the goofy arrows, green box and voice bubble.

Compiling your code without Visual Studio

Why would you compile code without Visual Studio? Well there are many reasons, but you might want to do an automatic build after everyone goes home for the day as an example.